Meeting opened at 6 15 chaired by Acting President pp John Mansour
Welcome to Lillian and Jonathan Chen from Strokesafe
Introduced by pp Peter Moore
Lillian thanked us for the invitation to Speak
Lillian is a local and lives Strathfield. She speaks to local community groups. She acknowledges traditional owners of the land.
Lillian is a stroke survivor. At age 49 was relaxing in spa and later went down stairs and she felt very tired. Jonathon asked why she looked so angry. She felt tired and tried to stand up but fell over. Jonathan and her sons realised the problem. They called an ambulance. It arrived and went to Concord Hosp where she had a CT scan and diagnosed that she had had a major stroke
She was rushed to RPA and was having major surgery within a couple of hours to remove a clot from her brain. Jonathon remembers waiting and when she woke up she was relieved that she was alive. The key was that her family had called the ambulance quickly. They are both pharmacists and decided to retire.
Globally 1 in 4 people will have some type of stroke.
Two types of strokes - ischaemic where an artery is blocked by a clot and hemorrhagic when a blood vessel bursts and floods the brain
Lillian now has some trouble with short term memory, but generally she has most of her facilities back. She retired to concentrate on her health.
Remembers FAST
Face – Check face- has the mouth drooped
Arms – Can they lift both arms
Speech – slurred? Do they understand you
Time – is critical Any of these signs ring 000
Often there is no pain, 25% are of working age, Male and age is higher risk,
Prevention - Make time for health checks, Eat well, Stay active moderate exercise, Drink alcohol moderately- limit to 4 standard drinks , max 10 per week, Be smoke free
NSW telestroke pathway - strokefoundation.org,au
Government has put money into communication with experts from hospitals.
How to get involved ? Give time, Raise funds, Speak up about Stroke, Leave a lasting legacy
Know your numbers – BP, cholesterol. blood tests, Stay informed
Please complete the survey online.
Thanked by John Mansour
Apologies: Denise Herrick , Simon Fox, John Kane, Rob Whitney, David Kwong
Last weeks meeting was very good and thanks to the NYSF attendees who spoke every well and obviously got a lot from attending NYSF.
Tree of joy. Got 1100 gifts usually only 400. Excess gifts went to underprivileged children. BCWS did a lot of wrapping and distribution.
Birthdays: Paul Sarks birthday
pp Keith reminded we running a BBQ at Strathfield BPWS Expo and need volunteers to help.
Pres Elect Hugo went to President elect training and found it very informative regarding Rotary and thought it was well run,
Raffle raise 45.00 won by Alf Dimarco
Board meeting tonight Closed at 7.50
Images by Marilie
Tonight's guest Speaker
"My name is Sweta Gupta, Software Engineer by profession and currently working as a Head Of Operation (Software) in an MNC Company. I am not only an accomplished coder, but a certified programmer, manager and leader. I enjoy using my skills to contribute to the exciting technological advances that happen every day in the Tech world for more than 18 years now in different countries USA, Australia & India. Recently completed the directorship course from AICD (Australian Institute Of Company Directors) to get a closer glimpse of the Australian Working environment and train myself for future directorship roles. While in school, I always earned distinctions and with my management and leadership skills I always lead the students, classmates, classrooms and now leading in the workfield.
